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Nonequilibrium phase transition of a one dimensional system reaches the absorbing state by two different ways

Statistical Mechanics 2023-08-15 v1 Computation

Abstract

We study the nonequilibrium phase transitions from the absorbing phase to the active phase for the model of disease spreading (Susceptible-Infected-Refractory-Susceptible (SIRS)) on a regular one dimensional lattice. In this model, particles of three species (S, I and R) on a lattice react as follows: S+I2IS+I\rightarrow 2I with probability λ\lambda, IRI\rightarrow R after infection time τI\tau_I and RIR\rightarrow I after recovery time τR\tau_R. In the case of τR>τI\tau_R>\tau_I, this model has been found to has two critical thresholds separate the active phase from absorbing phases \cite{ali1}. The first critical threshold λc1\lambda_{c1} is corresponding to a low infection probability and second critical threshold λc2\lambda_{c2} is corresponding to a high infection probability. At the first critical threshold λc1\lambda_{c1}, our Monte Carlo simulations of this model suggest the phase transition to be of directed percolation class (DP). However, at the second critical threshold λc2\lambda_{c2} we observe that, the system becomes so sensitive to initial values conditions which suggests the phase transition to be discontinuous transition. We confirm this result using order parameter quasistationary probability distribution and finite-size analysis for this model at λc2\lambda_{c2}. Additionally, the typical space-time evolution of this model at λc2\lambda_{c2} shows that, the spreading of active particles are compact in a behavior which remind us the spreading behavior in the compact directed percolation.14

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@article{arxiv.2308.07196,
  title  = {Nonequilibrium phase transition of a one dimensional system reaches the absorbing state by two different ways},
  author = {M. Ali Saif},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.07196},
  year   = {2023}
}

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14 page, 15 figures